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Cryptotethya crypta de Laubenfels, 1949 
AphiaID: 190761

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Astrophorida (Order) > Ancorinidae (Family) > Cryptotethya (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (genus transfer)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tectitethya crypta (de Laubenfels, 1949)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Tectitethya Sarà, 1994
Parent Cryptotethya Dendy, 1905 accepted as Stelletta Schmidt, 1862
Sources  original description: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1949b. Sponges of the western Bahamas. American Museum Novitates (1431): 1-25. [details] [full text]

basis of record: Sarà, M. 2002. Family Tethyidae Gray, 1848. Pp. 245-267. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow). [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Bahamian [details]
Specimens  Paratype: AMNH 500, locality Bahamas Exclusive Economic Zone (Bahamas, E and W of Bimini) [details]
Holotype: AMNH 473, locality Bahamian (Bahamas, E and W of Bimini) [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Notes  Holotype: AMNH 473 [details]

Type locality: Bahamas [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:190761
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-18 15:00:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-06-16 13:30:27Z  checked  van Soest, Rob
  
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  Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cryptotethya crypta de Laubenfels, 1949. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=190761 on 2013-05-19
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